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Weekend, December 6-8, 2013

UW professor reflects on time with Mandela By Megan Stoebig the daily cardinal

Throughout his life, Nelson Mandela achieved more than any one man could ever be expected to accomplish. From leading a nation out of apartheid to persistently advocating for peace and forgiveness, to serving 27 years in prison for his beliefs, he left behind a legacy that can never be matched. Nelson, an icon of peace and reconciliation, died Thursday at the age of 95. Heinz Klug, a professor and the current associate dean at the University of WisconsinMadison Law School worked for the African National Congress in Johannesburg, the liberation movement headed by Mandela and the current ruling party in South Africa. Klug joined the organization in June 1990, just after Mandela was released from his 27-year prison sentence in

February 1990. figure out a way for the regime Before being imprisoned, to get out of the way so a new Mandela was an organizer one could be born and he was and leader of the struggle in quite extraordinary in that,” South Africa, but he quickly Klug said. became a symbol for the Mandela also resistance against the received a Nobel Prize white apartheid while with F. W. de Klerk, in prison. Klug added the white president some parts of the world who was part of the accepted and others regime that imprisrejected this notion. oned him. Klug said Later, Mandela Mandela also set an emerged from prison example of his comas a “great statesman” mitment to democraMANDELA who stood by his princy by stepping down ciples despite being from the presidency called a terrorist for so many after only one term, when he years, and against all odds led could have stayed in the posiSouth Africa to a successful tion as long as he wanted. democratic election in which “He leaves a legacy at many he was elected president, levels,” Klug said. “He left a legaccording to Klug. acy to resistance to oppression, “He had an incredible pres- a legacy of a lawyer who underence, and he would argue that stood at the time the laws that despite the regime still killing were being posed on him were people, death squads, we had to illegitimate and his duty as a hold steady and negotiate and human being to break them.”

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Gov. Scott Walker speaks to the UW System Board of Regents Thursday about better educating the Wisconsin workforce.

Gov. Walker speaks on higher education options with regents By Dana Kampa the daily cardinal

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Dane County District 5 Supervisor Leland Pan said the state’s ban on marijuana marginalizes minorities and hopes his constituents will vote in favor of repealing it.

County leader hopes to diminish racial disparities by repealing state prohibition on recreational marijuana By Melissa Howison the daily cardinal

A county official is hoping the Spring 2014 election will become the platform from which voters can express to the state Legislature their opinion about the legal status of marijuana in Wisconsin. District 5 Dane County Supervisor Leland Pan, a University of WisconsinMadison junior, proposed attaching a referendum to the Spring

2014 ballot polling constituents about whether or not they would support legislation fully legalizing marijuana in Wisconsin. A similar referendum concerning the legalization of medical marijuana conducted during the 2010 Dane County Board elections showed more than 75 percent of county voters favored state legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes. However, Pan believes the state should completely

repeal the marijuana prohibition. He linked the aboveaverage levels of racial disparities in Dane County to the marijuana ban and said it not only marginalizes minority populations but also ineffectively attempts to curb marijuana use and possession. “It’s a medical issue and not a criminal issue in terms of addiction or in terms of

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Gov. Scott Walker spoke to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Thursday concerning the need to fill degree-requiring positions in the state. Walker emphasized the importance of forming partnerships among the state and higher learning institutes, particularly at UW System campuses. Walker also said employers are looking to fill higher positions. “I know that one of the big issues we hear about time and

time again is not just whether we can create more jobs in the state, but whether we can fill them,” Walker said. According to Walker, approximately 20-25 percent of the adult population in the state has some college credit but not a full degree. The growing need to fill positions in engineering, information technology and health care has created more opportunities for students. “This is one of those areas where the University of Wisconsin is stepping up and

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New policy for tuition allocation The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Business and Finance Committee approved and reviewed the policy in which tuition and fee revenues are distributed throughout the UW System at a meeting Thursday. Business and Finance Committee Chair Gerald Whitburn introduced the proposal, as suggested by UW System President Kevin Reilly, to approve the existing policy for which funds are distributed. The policy was presented to the committee for approval on the condition that a new policy

for allocation will be devised by June 2014. “The regular procedures used to distribute these funds are not widely understood,” Whitburn said. “Our current procedures—in other words, the policies we have in front of us this morning—need to go through review.” Current plans for pursuing a new policy include establishing a “workgroup” which will look for ways to adjust policies in place now and suggest a new policy to be implemented in the 2015-’16 fiscal year.

“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”


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